Improvement in coil-holders for wire



l. E.PALMER.

Coil-Holders for Wire, &c. N0. 143,376. Patented September30,l873

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IMPROVEMENT IN COIL-HOLDERS FOR WIRE, &c

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,376, dated September 30, 1873; application tiled March 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, of Hackensack, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Coil-Holder for Wire Cord and other Ma terials, of which the following is a specifica- 51011:

This invention consists in a novel construction of holder for wire or other stiif cord put up in coil, with facility for said material being u nwound and drawn or measured out from the center of the holder, without any liability of entanglement by the coils turning over or droping to the depth or thickness of the coil, and

which are, preferably, adjustable in relation with each other to suit diii'erent thicknesses of coil, and to provide for a close hold of the latter as the same is reduced by being drawn out through a central eye, b, in either disk. To thisend the one coil-holder section or disk may be fitted to be movable along guides carried by the other section, and, when adjusted, be held by notched spring-catches d d, or oth:

ward its center, for the purpose of more perfectly holding the loose cord and preventing the coils from turning over or becoming entangled when drawing or measuring out the wire through the open central eye b of the disk. A coil-holder thus constructed givesthe saine facility for measuring off wire or stiff cord incapable of being balled as is aorded by holders of twine, which latter, being balled, holds itself in the order it has been wound while being drawn or measured out from the center of its holder, and consequently is not as liable to become entangled as a loose coil of Wire or stiii' cord, which is apt to turn over and drop in the center, so that it is difficult to measure off wire or stiff cord from la coil 5 but by means of a coil-holder as herein described this difficulty is entirely overcome.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

l. A coil-holder composed of sections or disks B B', constructed and arranged to support and hold the coil in between them, and i provided with central eyes b b, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. A coil-holder having its sections, heads,

or disks B Bl adjustable in relation with each other, essentially as herein set forth.

ISAAC E. PALMER.-

Witnesses MICHAEL RYAN, FRED. HAYNEs. 

